Flexible Duration

Multi-Day Bookings — Multi-Anything Bookings

The flexible duration feature isn't limited to overnight stays. A customer can book a recording studio for 3 hours, a vacation rental for 10 nights, or a car for 5 days. The same date/time range picker handles all of it.

You set a minimum and maximum duration. The system checks availability across the entire selected range and blocks the time once booked.

How It Works

When you enable flexible duration on a service, the booking widget switches from a single time slot picker to a date/time range selector.

1. Customer picks a start date (and optionally, start time)
2. Customer picks an end date (and optionally, end time)
3. System verifies availability across the entire range
4. Total price = rate × units (hours, days, or nights)
5. Customer completes checkout with the full duration and price displayed

Use Cases

Equipment and vehicle rentals:

• Camera kit: $200/day, minimum 3 days, maximum 14 days
• SUV: $75/day, pick up and return any time

Accommodation:

• Hotel room: $180/night, check-in 3 PM, check-out 11 AM
• Vacation cabin: $350/night, 2-night minimum on weekdays, 3-night minimum on weekends

Extended services:

• Recording studio: $80/hour, 2-hour minimum, 12-hour maximum
• Coaching intensive: $500/day, 2-3 day programs

Multi-day workshops:

• Leadership program: $600/person, runs Friday through Sunday. Combine with group appointments to manage capacity across all 3 days.

Availability Across the Range

The system checks every day (or hour) in the selected range. If any single unit is unavailable — due to an existing booking, a day off, or a schedule gap — the entire range is blocked.

Min and Max Duration

Set limits that match your operational needs:

• Minimum duration — don't accept bookings shorter than 2 hours or 1 night
• Maximum duration — cap rentals at 30 days to manage availability

These limits appear in the date picker — customers can only select ranges within your allowed bounds.